skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was taught this by my dad and my schoolteachers too. Up until the ‘90s, in Italy you knew in advance whose editorial perspective you were getting from any given newspaper or tv bulletin; so it was deemed necessary to survey a plurality of them to figure out the most likely scenario for any given piece of news. In the end, though, only the most politically engaged would actually do that, and typically in order to know “what the enemy thinks” for tactical reasons.

Nowadays it’s all a bit murky - traditional big-money owners are not interested in paying for a dying media, and political parties are chronically broke and often short-lived, so even the biggest properties can quickly change hands from chancer to chancer.
New study shows we go to bed later and sleep less as a full moon approaches
Innocent until proven guilty, etc. etc.

Public witch hunts are called "witch hunts" for a reason, and it's not a pretty one. It's also known as "mob justice", which despite the name is generally considered to be not justice at all.
You're probably downvoted because it's "not relevant", but that was a good documentary. It's good to be the king, huh.
Not every website requires passwords or any other secrets to be transmitted. I use a combination of fingerprinting and WoT to allow (but not require) anyone to maintain an identity without having to register or sign in.
I found Python OO to be a super elegant and practical way to implement a common API for multiple databases.
Video simulation of the system I found on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/-WevvRG9ysY

It's incredible to me that within my lifetime we've gone from "planets around other stars might not even exist" to "here's a list, you want rocky or gas, big or small, habitable zone or not?"

Also, as always, xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1298/large/
Don't play derivates, options or shorts.

Buy things, hold things, sell things.
This is - as the kids put it - a very hot take.
True. And more significantly, both of those are a similar distance from the combustion point of the fuel.
> I mean, cold itself (within Earthly limits) doesn't put out fires.

However, heat is very much a part of the fire triangle.
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This shit is never fine.
very true. I often think of Blackstone's mega home run trade with Hilton Hotels. They bought it at the wrong price at the wrong time (pre GFC). But someone, they were able to over-default on the debt and still retain control and when they ended up selling it was a huge home run for Blackstone. Of course, the original bond holders got the shaft.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25929443.
It's not about "backing a commercial website"; it's about selling a solution for your own customers to use, where WordPress might be a component of that offered solution, customized into being something else (e.g. a control panel.)

There are concerns that doing so, in the context of a monorepo, might infect your entire codebase — including the components that have nothing to do with the control-panel, and so never touch the Wordpress stuff — with GPL.

Of course, you can architect code to get around that, e.g. building your shared architecture that the control-panel uses as a library, and then pulling that lib in from your isolated Wordpress control-panel codebase. But enterprises don't want to be forced into (possibly sub-optimal) architectures just because one component legally requires it. They'd rather just not use that component, so that their architecture can be totally determined by what's best for their development.
In case others are wondering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
- Charity is not the same as not-for-profit

- Hershey is a public company. Most certainly NOT owned by either a charity or a non-profit. The only way a non-profit comes into the picture is that a significant portion of their 'Class B' stock is owned by a trust which is dedicated to a non-profit (the Milton Hershey School). (https://www.thehersheycompany.com/content/dam/corporate-us/d... pp 36-37)
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I think this wording may be a bit misleading. I think the challenge is more subtle, let me walk through a scenario.

100 shares exist, all owned by person A. They lend all the shares to a short-seller, who sells them to B. Then B lends 40 of those shares back to the short seller, who sells them to C.

Now 140% of existing shares are shorted. But 240 shares are "owned" in some sense. A "owns" 100 shares and B "owns" 100 shares and C "owns" 40 shares.

What's not clear to me is which of these shares are available to be bought by the short seller. I assume you can't sell your shares if they're loaned out. So the short seller can first buy 40 shares from C and deliver to B. Then he has to buy 100 from B, including the shares he just delivered, and give them all to A.
Let's take one big example: climate change. Without the news, things would be different. It might never have achieved the level of funding and attention it has so far if it weren't for general public awareness.
Whatever the history is, it's been 40+ years since it started, and legislators have subsequently gone through a lot of effort to create a two tier system (IRAs vs 401k) which heavily favors employees of large businesses than can afford to pay high wages.

When something so blatantly tilted towards the rich, white collar world exists, and can so easily be fixed (by simply matching the terms of the IRA to the 401k), and has not been fixed for over 4 decades, I then take it to be intentional.
The reason it was a DDoS was that every single Android Signal client in the world was retrying the API without an exponential backoff. If you intentionally try to DDoS the API yourself, then that's just a DDoS and you don't need a custom Signal client for that.
The issues is not so much Amazon making money from it but Amazon acting as a direct competitor against their own cloud offering.

Personally I am happy about their decisions, as it stops the bleeding caused by big monopolistic corporations while protecting the freedom of users like me.
Why wouldn't it? Cold (within its limits on Earth) does not affect burning, in fact it probably makes it more effective due to convection.
https://archive.is/9UwhT
What is there to disclose when the group is entirely open for anybody to see?
You're right that a lot needs to be left out or put behind feature checks. But I can't say I've spent an inordinate amount of time tweaking for IE6 than most other browsers. I've probably spent the most tweaking work on IE3, Mosaic, and Netscape 2.
And I'm sure at some point there will be an RDNA-something APU from AMD, too, but there also isn't any existing power-optimized RDNA cores sitting around either to point at and just be like "but why didn't you use that instead?"
> Looks like Mr. Cuban is demonstrating that, sometimes, a superior business plan is the shorter path to justice than waiting for the Courts and the Legislature to catch up.

This is a very bold claim, that we do not currently have the data to evaluate.

In ten or twenty years, we can revisit it, and conclude whether or not it is actually true.
When that day finally come I guess lurking on hn will be my full time job. The question is which job got replaced first, the managers, or the programmers?
I think that what it's doing is sufficiently complex that the API is always going to be difficult. As long as abstractions like PeerJS exist I'm OK with that.
In the same way that a 401k is set up for a specific purpose, IKEA's foundation was also set up for a very specific purpose. If anything, the purpose was criticized as being overly narrow, and they recently updated it to be more broad.

Whether a firm can do something similar depends on the specifics. I'm not sure how large IKEA was when they set up their corporate structure in the early 80s, but I doubt they were as large as they are today.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112042116if_/https://www.ec...

I'm not trying to equate personal and corporate taxation though. If IKEA wants to funnel a large portion of their profits into a foundation to control themselves rather than paying taxes to the government instead, I don't see how that is tax avoidance. Many other foundations around the world are set up so the controlling interests of companies can choose how to disperse money instead paying taxes and letting the government choose how to disperse it. Not that there's anything wrong with that either, but having a corporation designed to minimize taxes by funneling profits into a foundation doesn't scream tax avoidance to me.

With that said, there could be other aspects of their corporate structure that I'm not aware of, but like I said, if other companies can also implement the same structure, even if it's across national boundaries, I don't see it as being particularly unethical. Although if someone believed for instance that companies should always repatriate all profits, then I could see how they would think this is unethical, so as usual YMMV.

Edit - To put it another way, there don't seem to be laws restricting investment firms from buying controlling interests in companies to manipulate asset prices/consumer behavior, which to me is far more detrimental than someone who may be pathologically frugal deciding they want to minimize taxes by setting up a complicated corporate structure with a foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad#Personal_life
Hemp fiber was in competition with wood fiber harvested from Hearst-owned western-US forest land. Hearst also owned a newspaper chain, and found using it an easy way to eliminate the competition. Hemp is both cheaper and better-quality than the wood fiber for paper, but had no newspaper-chain backing.
Look at [0], click at "compare more features" and search for ldap. For us it is mainly group sync and administrator sync that's missing.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
I've posted this once before but I grabbed a domain name and preloaded a tutorial. Happy to remove if that's against the rules!
If you just kill it without disabling the service it may be restarted both as a dependency when it's needed or immediately after killing.

Things like network service discovery, possibly network configuration, screenshots, Bluetooth, IME, and many others use dbus these days.
One will appreciate OO once he/she saw a 2000-line code in a single file.
The distinction between GPL and LGPL seems completely lost on you.

LGPL existed since 1991. Also large libraries and frameworks.
The Chamath Craze is ridiculous. The guy is a stock promoter through and through. It's really sad to see people fall into this guys trap.

He has an incredibly story (coming from nothing) but lets look at his career:

He "leaves" (aka fired) Facebook for being a D*ck head. Nobody is willing to work with him because he is rude and a jerk. His direct reports would cry regularly. Steven Levy talked about this in his book on Facebook.

He starts a VC fund. The fund has no "major" wins. For a guy writing checks in 2011 he didn't get any of the big wins. The VC fund literally "burns down" as Axios put it because he divorced his wife and was chasing a girl in Italy rather than being in the office.

Now he SPACs worthless companies selling them off to retail traders who think he is Warren Buffett. He is a salesman. The guy is on CNBC every other day.

I get the "holding truth to power" narrative is attractive but Chamath is not our saviour. I would argue he is just as bad as any other hedge fund manager. Taking advantage of retail investors.

Chamath talking about protecting the little guy is like Steve Cohen talking about respecting securities laws.
Note for readers who want to search for more: ECS is "Entity Component System"

And Eric Lippert has a fantastic series of blog posts where he also discusses this problem: https://ericlippert.com/2015/04/27/wizards-and-warriors-part...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932516.
Under the snow the temperature is way higher than -50c fire or not, too.
What I meant by my last statement is that no news outlet would have wanted to talk about "the innovative power of GPT-2 Enterprise." That just sounds fake, honestly. Every SaaS company wants to talk about the "innovative power" of the extra doodads they tack onto their Enterprise plans of their open-core product; where usually nobody is paying for their SaaS because of those doodads, but rather just because they want the service, want the ops handled for them, and want enterprise support if it goes down.

But, by marketing it as a new version of the tech, "GPT-3", OpenAI gave journalists something they could actually report on without feeling like they're just shoving a PR release down people's throats. "The new generation of the tech can do all these amazing things; it's a leap forward!" is news. Even though, in this case, it's only a "quantity has a quality all its own" kind of "generational leap."
Huh, I have seen countries where lobbying is illegal but they are vastly more corrupt than US.

Finding one scapegoat and blaming all problems to it seems cartoonish level simplistic.
I'd argue that's not object-oriented programming.

You are using Python's class mechanism, but that's where the OOness ends. The types themselves are immutable value types, carrying no state and reacting to no messages, and they don't exploit a class hierarchy beyond having a common "Number" class. The "methods" don't even behave like methods, e.g. __add__(self, other) has special wiring so it obscures which side of the addition is "self".

That's very different than a classic OO scheme like a UI toolkit.
But any fire is magnitudes hotter than -50. That cold is a blip on the fire's radar. Once started, and as long as there's fuel and oxygen, it won't stop because of negative Celsius temperatures.
It's possible to be technically correct but still be an asshole.

Making use of the ability to employ considerable resources to reduce your corporation's tax burden in ways that organisations without those resources cannot is absolutely a violation of the social contract surrounding taxation, which typically follows the convention that those who profit the most from society should return the most. As a result it's no longer shrewd but immoral.
How did this work? Is there a clear explanation with maximum math and minimum speculation about the emotional state of investors?
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Overvalued equities lead to market crashes that tend to wipe out the retirement funds of unsophisticated investors and bankrupt otherwise viable companies. Has everyone forgotten about the dot com bubble of 2000? If so I think we're headed for a reminder.
The Big Short talks about this too— people trying to figure out how to bet against subprime mortgages in a way that the entity on the other side of it will actually be in a position to pay out (and be able to be compelled to do so).

Perhaps ironically, one of the central characters of that story, Michael Burry, is none too pleased at the current situation: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/michael-burry-calls-gamestop-ral...

EDIT: The Big Short, of course, not Moneyball.
A lot of ppl are expecting this to be dumped hard. i dont think that is going to happen. I think rather it is going to stabilize eventually and not crash, much like Tesla. The market tends to do what consensus does not expect. GME is flush with cash and has the backing of various high profile billionaires. It may make a major acquisition or something like that.
Didn't Amazon buy PillPack? Not sure I can seem them moving to manufacture product though it certainly is possible.
Of course! And we're super anal during code reviews about people who won't follow it. You won't even get a review while the bot complains you messed the coding style.
Probably using Tailwind CSS.
You could limit the amount of money you can make via lobbying. If it was illegal to make more than $1 MM a year through lobbying, suddenly the playing field would be significantly more level. If a corporation can pay you $1 MM and a group of citizens can pay you the same, suddenly you care more about the message than the receipt. And the majority of ultra-rich lobbyists will do something else, because that's not nearly enough money to interest them.

I'm not a fan of limiting salaries in general and I do not believe this is a good solution, but I believe it's likely to be better than the current situation. This is just me spitballing on a whim, having put approximately 60 seconds of thought into a solution. Hopefully people more informed will reply with better solutions or an informed explanation of what's wrong with my idea.
I see what you're saying from a business perspective. From a social perspective though, I don't consider that a reason to withhold my ire towards people like Shkreli. Choosing to be a bad person because someone else might be worse is still a choice to be a bad person, so while your pragmatic reasoning might work well when it comes time to determine a legal response, I don't feel that encouraging people not to hate Shkreli is helpful in encouraging good social norms.
I guess this shows you what bad leadership does dor a country.
Well, the thing is that most people who are below the poverty line do not work and should not work. Of people that are poor, 80% are nonworkers.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...

Nonworkers are children, the elderly, disabled, students, carers, nonelderly retired, with unemployed being just 1.2% of that group.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...

If in the worst case more people are unemployed b/c the minimum wage increase, the poverty rate would increase. But the converse wont be true - even if the economy is booming and unemployment is zero, these folks are still going to be poor
I am super rooting for Mr. Cuban. As I alluded to in a previous post (not half a day ago), this is something I want to work on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25925876&goto=threads%...

If I am not mistaken, the biggest challenge as I see it is that according to the FDA abandoned (generic drug) program, the Cost Plus Drug company will not be able to advertise many of its drugs to advertising monopolies that the FDA has handed out to companies (e.g. Shkreli, but also many bigger pharma companies), which according to a doctor friend of mine is a business killer. However, it's entirely likely that through sheer force of personality and name recognition, Cuban can force through a program of "check our company first", without advertising any particular drug, that gets popular among doctors. Hopefully that will drive eyes to the company without running afoul of the FDA's well intentioned but horribly gone wrong rule.
£24 billion, or about $33 billion.
He forgot “by companies”. Your point is valid. It should be banned for companies. Either directly or indirectly.
And risk thousands of dollars and years of trauma from bed bugs.
I think it depends on what "counts" as a hole. Presumably you're counting your digestive tract as a hole from the mouth to the anus. But by virtue of me being able to hold my farts in, my anus is airtight. I don't think that the digestive tract should count as a hole when my anus is in the normal airtight state. I think that normally I'm a double toroid and I temporarily become a triple toroid when someone pulls my finger.
Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25915313
For plex, it actually makes sense to use a remote aside from the interface being a bit clunky, it’s far more intuitive for my partner too.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar or nationalistic flamewar (this is a bit of both). Those paths just lead to internet hell, and we're clinging to little clumps of grass and the occasional rock trying to stave off the downward slide into that abyss.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
They've fixed this btw sometime in 2020, they charge $0.31 per kw now.
How much of "wall street" would lose major money off this? Just a few hedge funds? Is that even that meaningful in the long run or big picture?
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This comment wouldn't read much different if you had included the phrase "white genocide" somewhere. I recommend you consider from where these prejudices are sourced.
pretty good arguments from both sides here and lots to learn; although, Chamath has many valid points he is also really good at skirting around some of the questions. hubris on both ends.
Companies switched to 401ks from pensions precisely because it's a scam. With a traditional pension, the company needs to guarantee the availablity of funds for retirees. With a 401k, each individual employee is required to gamble their life savings on the stock market.

The result is that the company doesn't need to give a damn about long-term stability, they can focus on short-term gains for a carousel of owners that each demands a quick return and cash out. As a bonus, the 401k system forces the government to bow to the whim of the stock market because every citizen is now clinging for dear life onto the same mechanism the owning class use to grow their hoards.

It's a win-win-win for the rich:

* they don't need to pay retirees

* they can squeeze more money out of companies at the expense of customers, workers, future owners, and the environment

* they can get leverage over the entire society by credibly threatening the lives of millions of retirees dependent on their table scraps
"Lobbying" is legitimising bribes from corporations politicians. It is as simple as that.

If USA wants to change the game (they don't) they can ban all corporate donations (aka legalized bribing), allow only donations by individuals, and then impose/enforce a limit of $10-25-50k per person (or something reasonable). Anyone playing tricks to game that rule get a penalty of x20 the excessive amount donated (e.g. via others). Also put all donations in public record. As simple as that.

It makes no sense to me that you (USA) spent $14bn [0] on this election.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/28/2020-election-spending-to-hi...
Just to be clear, you aren't disagreeing with the argument he is making in this clip? Correct?
While it is wasteful, I think the readability gain is far from nebulous. If you look at newspapers, they break pages up into columns. If books exceed a certain width, they get broken down into columns. Journals often break their articles into columns.

Now, a fair follow-up to this is that why don't we make text on the web into columns, so instead of big sidebars of white space you fit multiple columns of text on the screen? I'd say this is probably because the web uses scrolling instead of pagination. If there's more text than can fit on the page, it's faster and easier to just scroll down than it is to load a new page. But if you have a layout with columns, you'd have to scroll down to read, then scroll back to the top each time you finish a column, which is a hassle. So just having one long column requires the least user effort.

All said, of course some people might have different preferences. I'm sure some people find it easier looking from side to side with full screen text than scrolling down, or easier to click a next page button than scrolling down. But I think the trend for fixed width single columns on the web is one that's meeting many if not most peoples' preferences.
exactly the post I was trying to remember when talking about spellswords :)

Those posts are also cool in that defining games as a set of rules that operate on things within it is a really neat mental model -- the program should basically look like a DnD rulebook, with statblocks and all.
I doubt $.50 is the true cost, there's a program to donate millions of tablets to developing countries:

https://mectizan.org/partners/glaxosmithkline/
Wanna help spam some scammers?
The technical details are interesting but the emphasis on "1.7M savings" screams misdirection of resources, considering the salaries of SWEs/ML engineers and more importantly opportunity cost of them to deploy to an optimization task.
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